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Aimee Herman
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Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
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Everything Grows
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Meant to Wake Up Feeling
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to go without blinking
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The Body Electric
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Meant to Wake Up Feeling by Aimee Herman (2014-10-10)
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I have a website!
For many years, I have maintained (on and off) this wordpress blog. Thank you, Readers, for taking the time to peruse my words over the years.
While I am not quite ready to say goodbye to this, you can now find me HERE.
Thank you to Delilah for building me this site and teaching me. Also, for your patience.
OK….here I go.
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Maintenant is an interactive adventure of art and words. Beautifully laid out and representative of voices from all over the world. A thought-provoking anthology by a great NYC independent press. (I must note that I do have a poem in this anthology,
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“Have you ever accidentally swallowed a piece of celery without chewing? The feeling of its weight lodged in your throat, scraping its way down. You think you’re gonna choke, but your throat takes over and digests it, and it takes all the wind out of you. You need to lie down, catch your breath, maybe even take a nap.
That’s how it feels to come out each time.”
― Everything Grows
That’s how it feels to come out each time.”
― Everything Grows
“What happens when we say something out loud? Does it become more real? Is it any less really when we keep it to ourselves?”
― Everything Grows
― Everything Grows
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“Our body-minds tumble, shift, ease their way through space and time, never static. Gender transition in its many forms is simply another kind of motion. I lived in a body-mind assigned female at birth and made peace with it as a girl, a tomboy, a dyke, a queer woman, a butch. But uncovering my desire to transition—to live as a genderqueer, a female-to-male transgender person, a white guy—challenged everything I thought I knew about self-acceptance and love.”
― Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
― Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
“What happens when we say something out loud? Does it become more real? Is it any less really when we keep it to ourselves?”
― Everything Grows
― Everything Grows
“It is never really about what you are striving to get or achieve. It’s the journey.”
― Everything Grows
― Everything Grows
“I never want to be known. I’d rather be alone than have everyone talk about me and bother about my life. That’s why I want to be an astronaut. I just want to travel into space and stay there. Be somewhere where no one else goes.”
― Everything Grows
― Everything Grows
